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Breakfast links: Crystal City Underground to close after nearly 50 years in business
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Crystal City Shops mall goes underground for good
Crystal City Underground, a below-ground mall of shops and restaurants connected to the Crystal City Metro station, will shut down by the end of October, according to its landlord. After 50 years, the mall’s remaining two dozen tenants occupying 150,000 square feet of space will close. The owner has no plans for redevelopment. The walkways connecting nearby buildings and the Metro will remain accessible. (The Business Journal article is behind a paywall). (Brian Farrell / DC News Now, Daniel J. Sernovitz / Business Journal)
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Former Ward 5 business fined $100,000 for pollution
Rodgers Brothers Custodial Services, Inc., a trash and demolition company previously based in Ward 5, has been ordered to pay $100,000 by the DC Attorney General for illegally discharging pollutants into waterways through stormwater basins. The company faced complaints from the DC government since 1992 at its former site on Lawrence Avenue NE. The company’s president will have to pay half the sum because he was found personally responsible for two of the five incidents. (Kayla Benjamin / Washington Informer)
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Feds to dispose of WWI-era office building near the Tidal Basin
The General Services Administration determined that a federal building adjacent to L’Enfant Plaza and the National Mall has “outlived its useful life,” and will dispose of it. The building, originally constructed as a temporary World War I-related structure, currently houses the Treasury’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service, which will relocate to the downtown US Mint Headquarters in the spring of 2025. (Emily Wishingrad / Bisnow)
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Arenas don’t revitalize neighborhoods. People do
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